[geeks] "Stress test" for Vista system - suggestions sought...

[Micah R Ledbetter]

On Sep 9, 2007, at 18:45, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:27:54PM -0700, Geoff Reed wrote:
>> I saw a video card recently that had a GPU running around 700 MHz 
>> (IIRC) and
>> 1 GB of DDR ram on it ?!?!??!?!
>
> Yep.  More and more stuff offloaded to the GPU every day.  In fact,  
> some
> 3D effects companies have software that renders on the *GPU*  
> instead of the
> main machine CPU - as its more powerful / faster at math.

I read an offhand quote from some BSD developer (maybe OpenBSD?) who  
said that it would be cool for someone to write programs using GPUs  
as coprocessors... like SSL accelerators, etc.

I agree... that would be pretty cool.

  - Micah